Tevertiz: GateKeeping

1I guess I won’t call myself an American anymore

I have never been to a Waffle House at any time of day/night. I must not be an American, but honestly, I'm okay with that right now.

2Instagram CEO thinks $2500 is peasant cash

2,500 is low for an investment. In the mind of the Instagram CEO, if someone came up to him to ask for a $2,500 investment, wouldn't he laugh? It's like asking Duke Ellington to play Chopsticks.

3Almost thought I was a Tupac fan, glad I found this video to set me straight

4Modern art isn't real art

Grass is always greener kind of mentality.
Of all the old art and music people appreciate today, that stuff tends to represent a tiny fraction of everything created. We lost far more than we ever kept. Now people think everything Mozart you can find is amazing, well I guarantee you he wrote a bunch of stuff no one liked either, it wasn't worth saving.
Same goes for art. Some stuff was worth keeping, some wasn't, some was taken and lost, some was destroyed.
When you're watching new movies, or listening to new bands, or appreciating new art, you're seeing all of it, not just the stuff history has decided was worth keeping.
There are plenty of artists who still die before being appreciated, who work their whole lives on pieces not because they are trying to get rich but because they want to express themselves. Maybe it'll be famous, maybe not, time will tell.

5Shouldn't be allowed on the internet

Personally I could never really like something that was recommended to me. It always felt like "theirs," I could never get into it and I had to find my own stuff.
And at the same time, I never successfully recommended something to someone, had them get into it, then been able to talk with them about it all the time. I'd have to just find someone who was already into what I liked.

6Yeah, sure

Misery is a 1990 American psychological thriller film based on Stephen King's 1987 novel of the same name and starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth, and Frances Sternhagen about a psychotic fan who holds an author captive and forces him to write her stories. Directed by Rob Reiner, the film received critical acclaim for Bates's performance as the psychopathic Annie Wilkes, and Bates won the 1990 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role, making Misery, as of 2017, the only Stephen King adaptation to be an Oscar-winning film. The 'hobbling' scene in the film was ranked #12 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

7Only poor people can be drug dealers

i can understand this to a degree. if i was slanging just to get by, id be pissed about someone doin something that dangerous just for fun/extra money

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